The number of people identified in intensive care units fell on Sunday May 8, below the symbolic bar of 5,000 Covid-19 patients, for the first time since March 29, while the positivity rate also continues to decline to 5 , 8% against 6.2% the day before, according to figures from Public Health France.
Critical care services, which combine resuscitation, intensive care and continuous monitoring, numbered 4,971 people on Sunday, against 5,005 on Saturday and 5.106 on Friday.
This indicator, monitored very closely by the health authorities, is slowly moving away from the bar of 6,000 patients exceeded on April 26 and the alarming peak of the first wave of spring 2020 (about 7,000 patients).
The positivity rate over the last seven days consolidated on D-3, which measures the proportion of positive cases compared to the number of people tested, continues its encouraging decline to 5.8% against 6.2% on Saturday.
Hospitalizations on the decline
In 24 hours, 129 new patients with severe forms of Covid-19 were admitted to intensive care units.
They were 191 the day before and 269 on Friday.
Over the last seven days, 1,865 people have been admitted to critical care units, including 1,246 in intensive care.
The decrease is also observed for all hospitalizations, with a total of Covid-19 patients amounting to 25,797, slightly less than the day before (25,800) and much better than Friday (26,331).
That of admissions to hospitals over the last 24 hours is much clearer: 527 patients, against 844 on Saturday and 1,140 on Friday.
In the past 24 hours, 116 people have died in hospital, against 176 the day before and 227 on Friday, bringing the total number of deaths from Covid-19 to 106,421 since the start of the pandemic.
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